Behind the Shades

Chapter one

In the city of manehattan a young filly was born with a dark blue and cyan colored mane and tail, with the most stunning red eyes in all of Equestria. The filly's mother and father were so happy for this new life that they could call their daughter.  The young fillys mother questioned to the father "What should we name her?"

They went back in forth eith names until her Father finally said "What about Vinyl?"

"Oh dear, that is a perfect name, Vinyl.  My sweet sweet Vinyl."  A few years past and the filly was now 2 weeks away from her eighth birthday. "Oh Vinyl could you come here?"  the filly's mother called to her.

"Yea mom, whats up?" Vinyl asked her mother as she walked into the kitchen where she was cooking up dinner or the family.

"Now i know your birthday is coming up and i wanted to know what you were thinking you wanted to get?" her mother questioned

"Well, now that you mention it im not really sure my friend Lyra down the road her cousin just came in from Las Pegasus and he had something called a turn table and they looked pretty cool so i was wondering if i could maybe get one?"  Looking to her mother with her big red eyes trying to smuther her mom into getting her one.

"A turntable huh, what would you do with one of those anyways?" Vinyls mother asked her.

"I don't know, I saw that you and dad had some old records out in the shed and i was wondering if i could listen to them sometime. And if I had one of them I could listen to some."

"Ok well I'll see what we can do, but im not making any promises so don't get your hopes to high now, some of those are pretty expensive and we are a little short on money. Now go along and play with your friends while I finish cooking." Her mother told her in a bit of a sorrowful tone.  The next few weeks were the longest that Vinyl had even experenced in her life she was counting down the seconds until her birthday.  Finally the young filly's birthday had arrived her parents came and woke her up a little earlier that morning to wish their daughter a happy eighth birthday.

"Happy birthday Vinyl!" Her parents had yelled as they walked into her room.  The filly woke up instantaneously with joy.

"Oh Celestia thank you! I thought this day would never come!" The filly praised.

"Now we got you something for your birthday I think your ganna like." her mother said with a very happy voice.  Her parents gave her the present and  the young Vinyl noticed the shape of the box.

"Oh my gosh is it really what i asked for?!?" she said in her head.  When she finished ripping the wrapping paper to shreds her face had changed to a little less happy face to see it wasn't the tables she had wished for.  She sat on her bed to see that what was really in the box was just a couple items of clothing. "Is this all?" the filly questioned in a bit of a sad tone to her parents.

"Well you see sweatheart, your mother and I couldnt afford all the nice new things you wanted but hey its not about the gifts its about celibrating your life.  Im sorry we couldnt get you what you wanted."  Vinyl's father said in a very upsetting tone

"Its ok, well hey its better then nothing right?" Vinyl said to her parents "Thank you so much I love you guys."

"Ok well hurry get ready you have school soon get ready and come down stairs for your birthday breakfast." her mother said to her.  Once at school Vinyl told her friends about her "amazing" birthday suprise her parents gave.

"I just wish they would have gotten me one you know?" Vinyl said to her friend Lyra.

"Well hey it could have been worse.  I mean thats better than what I got for my last birthday, last time all I got was a stupid goldfish that died like 3 days later, so much for a great present right?"

"Haha yeah i guess your right it could have been worse." The two exchanged laughs with eachother. "Well ive gotta go to class ill see you later after school."

"Oh you mean right after school?" Lyra asked in a concerning tone.

"Yea why do you have plans?" Vinyl asked her friend.

"Yea very busy probably wont be able to hangout till tomorrow, sorry got to go dont wanna be late." her friend said as she walked away from her friend.

"Thats weird Lyra never does anything after school whats with that pony? And hey she never said happy birthday to me . somethings going on." Vinyl said to herself questioning her friends reaction. Later that day after school Vinyl got a text from her mother asking to run to the store to pick up some milk and bread for dinner tonight.  This seemed strange since the store was on the other side of town and her mother would usually go but Vinyl just blew it off as if it were nothing.  After walking almost 4 miles the young filly was exhausted from walking and just wanted to go home and take a nap but what happened to her was a bit of a suprise to her.

"SUPRISE!!!" a large group of ponies shouted as she walked into her house nearly giving the filly a heart attack.  The young mare was so excited to see all her friends and family.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY VINYL!!!" The young green filly finally said to her friend as she jumped on top of her friend.

"I thought you said you were busy today?" The pinned filly questioned her friend.

"Well I was you silly filly I had to help your mom put all this together." Lyra said to her friend.

"Well then I guess you're off the hook for now." The two fillies laughed together at what she had just said.  After Vinyl and all her friend played and ate the most amazing carrot cake they oped presents.  She got all kinds of little trinkets and cloths and toys but there was one last gift that needed to be opened.  As the birthday pony opened her last present she had no other reaction but to scream and hug her parents.  It was the turntables she so  desperately wanted.